{"id":142,"date":"2007-08-28T22:25:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/?p=142"},"modified":"2007-08-28T22:25:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T12:25:27","slug":"the-irish-national-stud-tully-co-kildare-ireland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/wordpress\/britain-ireland\/the-irish-national-stud-tully-co-kildare-ireland","title":{"rendered":"The Irish National Stud &#8211; Tully, Co. Kildare &#8211; Ireland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"float: right\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1009507070974015\";\r\ngoogle_alternate_ad_url = \"http:\/\/www.travelsignposts.com\/google_adsense_script.html\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\ngoogle_ad_format = \"300x250_as\";\r\ngoogle_ad_type = \"text_image\";\r\n\/\/2007-06-30: TSBlog 300x250\r\ngoogle_ad_channel = \"2928184950\";\r\ngoogle_color_border = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_bg = \"FFFFFF\";\r\ngoogle_color_link = \"FF6600\";\r\ngoogle_color_text = \"000000\";\r\ngoogle_color_url = \"339933\";\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\n  src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p>DAY 9 &#8211; This morning we drove to\u00a0County Kildare, Ireland\u2019s premier thoroughbred horse region, and had\u00a0a guided tour of the National Stud.\u00a0 Initially I thought I would find this tour uninteresting as I was not keen in horse racing, however it turned out to <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/18005-2\/DSC_0397.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"National Stud\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"National Stud\" \/>be quite educative and enjoyable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The National Stud owes its existance to Col. William Hall-Walker who in 1900\u00a0purchased a farm at Tully, <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" width=\"110\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/18025-2\/DSC_0408.jpg?resize=110%2C85\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"National Stud\" height=\"85\" style=\"width: 110px; height: 85px\" title=\"National Stud\" \/>Kildare.\u00a0 Col. Hall-Walker was a wealthy Scotsman\u00a0from a famous brewery family. \u00a0Here he started to breed thoroughbred horses and some described his\u00a0breeding management policies as &#8216;inspired&#8217; or &#8216;eccentric&#8217;.\u00a0 In 1915 he gave the Stud as a gift to the British Crown and in return, he was bestowed the title Lord Wavertree.\u00a0 Tully continued as the British National Stud until 1943 when it was handed back to the Irish government.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"right\" width=\"85\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.travelsignposts.com\/Destination\/d\/18009-2\/DSC_0400.jpg?resize=85%2C110\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"Vintage Crop\" height=\"110\" style=\"width: 85px; height: 110px\" title=\"Vintage Crop\" \/>In 1945 the Irish National Stud Company was formed and one of its key objectives is to promote Irish bloodstock nationally and internationally.\u00a0 Our young trainer guide took us around the grounds which were very well kept,\u00a0beautiful and serene.\u00a0 As he gave us a little insight into the horse breeding business, it was obviously a very expensive businesss.\u00a0 National Stud has produced champion horses and\u00a0Vintage Crop and Danoli were two of them.\u00a0 Australians will well remember Vintage Crop who won the Melbourne Cup in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>If you do get a chance to visit the National Stud, it&#8217;s well worth doing so, even if you&#8217;re not a racing enthusiast.<\/p>\n<p>Helen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAY 9 &#8211; This morning we drove to\u00a0County Kildare, Ireland\u2019s premier thoroughbred horse region, and had\u00a0a guided tour of the National Stud.\u00a0 Initially I thought I would find this tour uninteresting as I was not keen in horse racing, however it turned out to be quite educative and enjoyable.\u00a0 The National Stud owes its existance [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain-ireland","category-ireland"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Irish National Stud - Tully, Co. 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